My Acer Aspire 5742 shuts down randomly.

My Acer Aspire 5742 shuts down randomly. After the machine has been started It shuts down in few minutes. It then again restarts automatically and then shutdowns and this sequence continues till I close the screen.

To my surprise, when I put a table fan beside the laptop i.e... The fan facing the CPU exhaust it works without any problems and it doesn't even shut down. Smiley Surprised Problem is I can't always have a table fan beside my laptop in this chilling winter.

When I searched Google it seemed like a common problem with ACER Laptops. Even I YouTube there were many comments for similar problem.

Is it a problem with CPU fan? Do I need to replace the CPU fan Or cleaning it will work? How to clean the CPU fan for ACER ASPIRE 5742?

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freeza

Good day

I do suggest that you clean the CPU fan as dust may accumulate over time thus causing the fan to mulfunction. Cleaning the fan means that you will need to strip the entire machine.